Raible Designs

Good Humor from the struts-user mailing list

This made me laugh out loud, so I thought I'd share:

Hi, all -- I'm new to struts and I have a few questions. Since you are
the experts I'm sure you will be able to help me.

My boss wants to know how many people are using struts and how long it
will take to build our application using struts as opposed to our current
development process. We currently have a thousand monkeys sitting at a
thousand emacs editors. The application isn't completely designed yet,
and of course I can't release confidential information about our 
application but if you could give me an estimate of monkey-hours saved, 
that would be great.

I was able to download the struts-blank.war file but I am having trouble
setting it up. The first stumbling block was that it is misnamed. It
should be called 'struts-blank.zip' because it is in zip format. I had 
to open the file in hexedit to figure that one out. Hopefully the next 
version will have the right name???

The other problem I have is that I can't get my application to behave
properly. If the user types in their email address I want to be able to
check that it is a correct one and show the field red while they are
typing if it is not. I have a javascript that checks for the '@' sign but 
many people are typing in 'a@a'. Since I don't think so many people would
have the same email address we are losing valuable data. How can struts 
help me with this? Will it take many monkey-hours to implement?

Once I unzipped the file I could not find any README or INSTALL file. I
tried the usual 'make; make install' but that did not work. I went out
on the net to find some install instructions and I read one place that 
said I just had to stick the zip file inside my tom cat. I do have a cat, 
but she's female. Will that make a difference, or does struts only run on
male cats? Does it matter if they are neutered? Does each client need to 
have a male cat or just the server?